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LLC East Asian

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  • Profile picture of Alexa Alice Joubin

    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Generative AI as Shadow Publics in an Inquiry-Driven Society, Symposium on Digital Scholarship. Hong Kong Baptist University, October 27, 2023 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 6 days ago

    Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, simulate human writing and complicate the inquiry-driven culture we live in. These tools use singular first-person pronouns in their textual outputs and are often associated with anthropomorphic qualities. Within the humanities, conversations tend to focus on detecting new forms of plagiarism. What is missing…[Read more]

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    Brian Bernards started the topic Job Opening: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Premodern Korean Studies, USC in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Assistant Professor in Premodern Korean Studies

    The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Premodern Korean Studies. The position is…[Read more]

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    Brian Bernards started the topic AAS 2024 Seattle CFP: Verge-sponsored panel on Inter-Asia Intermediality in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    AAS 2024: Call for Papers for Verge-sponsored Panels


    Inter-Asia Intermediality: The Transboundary Production of Global Asian Mediascapes
    Organizers: Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) and Elmo Gonzaga…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Lin Shu.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    Alexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin Receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago

    Alexa Alice Joubin received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, which recognizes Professor Joubin’s “contributions to social justice and inclusive excellence ” that exemplify “the ideals that Dr. King espoused,” particularly “community-based social justice organizing rooted in non-violence.” The MLK Award comes on the heel of her bell hook…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Do English Audiences Have the Toughest Time with Shakespeare?,” Quarto: The Magazine of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, Spring/Summer, 2023 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago

    All the world’s a stage, but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. “English audiences are at a disadvantage because the language has evolved and is more and more distant. They need footnotes, props and staging to understand,” said Alexa Alice Joubin, a Shakespeare schol…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “English Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory.” GW Today, April 12, 2023 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago

    When ChatGPT was launched, Alexa Alice Joubin realized it was here to stay. She views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use it responsibly, not as a shortcut. “This technology is going to be with us, and students need employable skills in terms of curation, editorial repackaging and prompt engineering,” Joubin said. “They need…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Joubin receives the bell hooks Legacy Award in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago

    Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. The award recognizes Joubin’s a…[Read more]

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    Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: USC Teaching-Track Position in EALC in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 8 months ago

    The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the East Asian Studies Center in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, invite applications for a full-time teaching-track faculty position in East Asian cultural studies, with a preferred focus on…[Read more]

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    Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 10 months, 4 weeks ago

    The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

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    Jack W. Chen started the topic Executive Forum Call for Nominations in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 11 months ago

    P14 Chinese Forum members, we are in the process of soliciting nominations for the forum executive committee. We are particularly interested in midlevel senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world literary methodologies. Please send all nominations, including…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Anti-Asian Racist Misogyny in Science Fiction Films.” The American Mosaic: The Asian American Experience (Bloomsbury ABC-CLIO, 2022). Digital Database in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago

    The depiction of women of East Asian descent in science fiction films reveals how racial hierarchies are mapped onto, and used as justification for, mistreatment of women—and misogynistic prejudices inform racism. Contributing to the patterns that dehumanize Asian women are multiple sci-fi films that feature cyborgs and androids in Asian female b…[Read more]

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    Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    Oceans and Empires: Sinophone Crossroads in Global Space and Time 

    The 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies <https://www.sinophonestudies.org/s3conference>

    5/12—5/14/2023

    Penn State University

    The Sinophone world that is invigorated by “multisensory protests” and “ally-ship” (the focus of the 2021 conference) al…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology, 1987-2007, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Palgrave, 2022) in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, three of the most frequently adapted tragedies, have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China for over two centuries as political theatre, comedic parody, Chinese opera, and avant-garde theatre. Gender roles in the plays take on new meanings when they are e…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television,” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19.1 (March 2022): 167-180. in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago

    The global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism, this article analyzes the manifestation of the ideas of yellow peril and yel…[Read more]

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    Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago

    An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.

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    Jina Kim started the topic CFP Modernist Studies Association’s Annual Conference “Pacific-Rim Modernism” in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago

    CFP for the Modernist Studies Association’s Annual Conference

    “Pacific-Rim Modernism”

    Portland, Oregon | October 27-30, 2022

    https://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa2022/cfp.html

    Call for Individual Paper Proposals for MSA Panel Streams

    • Pacific-Rim Modernism examines not only how western modernists and modernist cultural productions imag…

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    Jina Kim started the topic CFP Korean Literature Association Conference 2022 in the discussion Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago

    Korean Literature Association Annual Meeting

    November 11-12, 2022, University of OregonEugene, OR, USA

    The Korean Literature Association cordially invites proposals for its annual meeting on the theme of “Resonance” to be held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. We invite individual papers and team projects that reflect on the way res…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural Studies: An Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin,” American Journal of Chinese Studies 28.2 (October, 2021): 115-130. in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago

    How might we de-colonize hegemonic knowledge production about East Asia and its relationship with the West? This interview with Alexa Alice Joubin draws on new perspectives on cultural exchange in her book, Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021), which promotes treatment of Asian performing arts as original epistemologies rather…[Read more]

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    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown,” Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern, ed. Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska (Cornell University Press, 2021), 322-349 in the group Group logo of LLC East AsianLLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago

    Analyzing trans narratives about the early moderns through the lenses of affective labor and social reparation, this chapter reclaims as trans the Shakespeare films that have been misinterpreted as homosexual. In doing so, this chapter builds a longer, more intersectional history of gendered embodiment. Reparative trans performances—works in w…[Read more]

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